[reverett123]

http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB...oduktNr=224263

Just out a couple of weeks. It seems that the highest rate of PD ever observed, three times the US average, has been found in, of all places, the Amish!

The researchers feel that genetics can be ruled out because the effect was more pronounced among those distantly related rather than those closely related.

So, if we can eliminate genetics, the Amish lifestyle should let us also rule out pesticides, environmental chemicals, possibly stress, the medical system, and goodness knows what else.

There are, however, two things which move to the front. One is the possible autoimmune response to wheat gluten. The Amish eat a lot of it. The other is the possible hypersensitivity to bacterial cell wall toxins (LPS). Somewhere in the archives there is a crude map that I did showing the link between the production of hay crops and PD. Haymaking is terribly dusty work and the dust is laden with LPS.